Nearest Communities to Desert Wells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Desert Wells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Desert Wells:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Desert Wells is located in La Paz County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of La Paz County: Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, Yuma, Imperial (CA), Riverside (CA) & San Bernardino (CA).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Desert Wells. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than La Paz County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Desert Wells (which is La Paz County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Desert Wells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- La Paz County (where Desert Wells resides)
- County Website: www.co.la-paz.az.us/
- County Seat for La Paz: Parker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Desert Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Desert Wells.
- Vicksburg Junction
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vicksburg Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg Junction
- Vicksburg Junction is located in La Paz County
- Bush Pit
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bush Pit have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Pit
- Bush Pit is located in La Paz County
- Vicksburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg
- Vicksburg is located in La Paz County
- Pioneer
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pioneer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer
- Pioneer is located in La Paz County
- Hope
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hope have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
- Hope is located in La Paz County
- New Hope
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- New Hope is located in La Paz County
- McVay
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McVay
- McVay is located in La Paz County
- Brenda
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenda
- Brenda is located in La Paz County
- Harcuvar
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harcuvar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harcuvar
- Harcuvar is located in La Paz County
- Harqua Hala ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harqua Hala. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harqua Hala
- Harqua Hala is located in La Paz County
- Salome
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Utting
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utting
- Utting is located in La Paz County
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Wenden
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Plomosa ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plomosa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plomosa
- Plomosa is located in La Paz County
- Bouse
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Love
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Love have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Love
- Love is located in La Paz County
- Quartzsite
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Midway
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Midway is located in La Paz County
- La Paz Valley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz Valley
- La Paz Valley is located in La Paz County
- Centennial
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Centennial have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial
- Centennial is located in La Paz County
- Maricopa County
- County Website: www.maricopa.gov/
- County Seat for Maricopa: Phoenix
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Desert Wells ...
- Cullen's Well ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cullen's Well. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen's Well
- Cullen's Well is located in Maricopa County
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Desert Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Desert Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7084, Longitude: -113.8216 In this case, the coordinates for Desert Wells have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
<2> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.
Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
<3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
<4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
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